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On 11 Oct 2012, at 16:05, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:

> Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200
> schrieb Ulrich Sp=F6rlein <uqs@FreeBSD.org>:
>>=20
>> So how well is networking going to be supported by FreeBSD? Should I
>> just bite the bullet and find out?
>=20
>=20
>=20
> What about the=20
>=20
> HP ProLiant N40L
> ?
>=20
> It's not fanless, of course - but it's IMO more suited for a
> server-type system than anything else in that price-range.
>=20
> I don't have one (I have no need for anything beyond what an
> AlIX-system can do) - but if I would need a home-server, I'd buy a =
N40L
> (it can boot from USB and you can thus boot FreeNAS from it)

I've done both actually. I've got an N36L running FreeNAS, booting
from USB and an alix system running pfsense.

- Mark=